Encounters with Aliens on this Day

August 4

1947 - The pilot and co-pilot of an airliner flying over Everett, Massachusetts
at 4:00 p.m. sighted a bright glowing orange cylindrical object, 15
feet long and shaped like a cigarette, flying at 150 mph. It had a
glaring jet exhaust. At dusk two more pilots on a civilian cargo plane
saw another UFO that looked like a fuselage without wings while
flying over Bethel, Alaska. This second UFO outdistanced their airplane. (Sources: Bruce Maccabee, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1977, p. 10; NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1978, p. 4; Bob Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, August 19, 1987).

1950 - In the Atlantic Ocean
approximately 100 miles southeast of New York City (39.58 degrees N,
72.41 degrees W). At 10:00 a.m. EDT Master Nils Lewring, Chief Mate
Jacob Koelwyn, and the Third Mate of the M/V Marcala sighted a ten-foot
long cigar or ovoid object at 50-100 feet altitude, flying with a
churning or rotary motion. The UFO was shaped like an egg cut
lengthwise, and wobbled as it flew. It also "sparkled in the sunlight."
It accelerated away toward the end of their fifteen-second observation.
(Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case
# 773; UNICAT, case # 720; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO
Unknowns).

1952 - A woman with two children in Mount Vernon, New
York reported that they observed a white donut-shaped object for two
hours, beginning at 11:37 a.m. It emitted black smoke from its top and
made a 15-degree arc in the sky in 1.5 minutes. (Sources: Project Blue
Book files counted in official statistics, case 1813; Don Berliner,
Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington:
UFOs over the Capitol, p. 276).

1959 - At 7:00 p.m. a white spherical object was sighted hovering over Wakwapu, Papua New Guinea
by Mr. R. Smith. It had coherent light beams. There were green rays of
light emanating from the base of the object, one on either side at an
angle of 15 degrees from the vertical, and one aimed straight up
vertically. All beams receded into the UFO in a coherent fashion like
retracting appendages. (Source: Norman E. G. Cruttwell, UFOs in Two Worlds: FSR Special Edition No. 4, p. 27).

1963 - Ronnie Austin and Phyllis Bruce, age 18, were driving to Phyllis Bruce's home in Wayne City, Illiniois
when they had a close encounter with a humming, yellowish orange
ball of light on Highway 15 at 11:30 p.m. It paced the car to the
woman's house, crossing and recrossing the highway, and then
hovered over a nearby barn when they parked the car.While the UFO was hovering it changed its color to a dull orange.
They continued to watched the object from her house with her family
members for nearly an hour. When Ronnie left the object
buzzed his car repeatedly. He felt a cooling effect and heard a
loud whining sound on the car radio as the UFO made passes at the
car. His engine also missed and the speedometer was effected. (Sources:
Wayne County (IL) Press, August 5, 1963; APRO Bulletin, January 1964, p. 3; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, August 1988, p. 15; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 20; Francis L. Ridge, MUFON field investigation case files, case # 900825).

1965 - At 1:30 a.m. on Highway 15, truck driver Don Tenopir, age
44, had reached a point 25 miles from Abilene, Texas when his
headlights blinked and failed, but his truck's diesel engine did not. A metallic, domed disc-shaped UFO swooped
low from behind and dove towards his grain truck, then landed on the road
30 meters ahead causing a car coming from the opposite direction to leave
the road in order to avoid it. The object had an orange glow and was five
meters in diameter, 1.5 meters high, and had a "black spot" on its dome.
It took off toward the west, then turned south. The UFO made a sound like
wind blowing through trees, and gave off bluish sparks. (Sources: Jerome
Clark, Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1966, p. 29; Jacques
Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 671;
Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p.
454).

Abilene, Texas - 1965

1965 - A bright, silvery object landed on a hill in Chena,
Chile for 45 minutes. There were numerous witnesses, among them
military men. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century
of Landings, case 672).

1965 - At 8:30 p.m. Joao Erondo dos Santos saw a disc 50 meters
in diameter land near the Trapua River, Brazil with a distinct sound, although
no traces were found afterward. The object illuminated a wide area.
(Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings,
case 674).

1967 - A red domed disc-shaped object was sighted flying to the north over Kidsgrove, Stoke-on-Trent, England
at 11:10 p.m. It was the size of two bungalows, and had 10
to 12 bright red lights arranged around its circumference on the
lower part. It changed direction to approach the witnesses, and hovered
a few seconds above the bungalows at the top of the road. The witnesses
were two married couples, Mr. & Mrs. Brogan and Mr. & Mrs.
Turner. The incident lasted about one minute. (Sources: Roger H.
Stanway & Anthony Pace, UFOs: Unidentified, Undeniable, p. 6; UNICAT, case # 536).

1967 - Engineer Hugo S. Yepez was on a beach 25 km north of
Arrecife in Venezuela when he saw the water violently disturbed
near a fishing boat. A Saturn-shaped UFO, six meters in diameter, came out
of the water. It was gray, looked metallic, and hovered for a few seconds
just a meter above the surface. It then rose slowly to the east and flew away.
(Sources: NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1968, p. 5; Ivan T.
Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 44; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 864, citing NICAP: Richard Hall, The UFO
Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 11 & 200).

1968 - Three young men walking along a street in Montreal,
Quebec at 5:00 a.m. noticed a three-foot tall, hairy, heavyset
figure lurking in some nearby shadows. It had long curving arms and was
hunched over; it suddenly made a tremendous leap and disappeared. (Source:
John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters).

1968 - On this evening in Cordoba,
Argentina 11-year-old Graciela Lourdes Gimenez was
playing outside her home when she experienced a bizarre event. "I wanted
to go back indoors and watch TV," she told reporters from the newspaper
Cordoba, "and then just as I was about to turn around...a white
cloud, like mist, appeared on the front path. It gradually came towards
where I was, and then I could no longer see the other houses, and I
couldn't move or call out to Mummy...and after that...I don't know
anything more...until I found myself on a square where there were lots of
people and lots of little boys..." She knocked at a nearby house, and the
residents turned her over to the police. She had somehow traveled from her
Cordoba suburb to the Plaza Espana in the heart of the city. After the
incident, the child suffered fits of weeping and cold chills. (Source:
John A Keel, Our Haunted Planet).

1972 - At dusk a domed, disc-shaped object was viewed through binoculars, hovering over a mountain, by six witnesses in Baakline, Lebanon.
It had windows around its rim, and made no sound. It flew off to the
southeast after 15 minutes. (Sources: Walter Hamadi, FSR Case Histories, June 1973, p. 12; APRO Bulletin, January-February 1973, p. 1).

1973 - At 10:00 p.m. a flying boxcar-shaped UFO buzzed a car with three male occupants east of Greenup, Illinois. It then hovered over a nearby cornfield, and then over a farmhouse. The encounter lasted 10 minutes. (Sources: Skylook, October 1973, p. 5; Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 42).

1973 - A week to ten days after observing a mysterious light
maneuvering in the sky, the witness had to return to Phoenix and she asked
her brother to go along with her for company. At around ten o'clock on this
night, while driving up a hill somewhere in the vicinity of Indio,
California she began to receive pictures in her mind and had a
sense of presence. These "images" came in grays and browns, and she tried
to counter them by thinking of bright colors. She found the gray images
unpleasant, and had the sense of an interior, with gray green walls, which
had three vague "forms" in it. Believing she was daydreaming and tired,
she forced her concentration back to her driving when she noticed colors
reflecting on the dashboard and asked her brother if there was something
in the sky. Both of them briefly observed a light over the highway
changing colors from blue, to green, to red, to yellow, and then to a
brilliant white. Then it vanished. It was in view for less than a minute.

Her brother was very excited. The trip continued and seemed to be
uneventful. However, later under hypnotic regression she was asked to
examine her image of a gray interior more closely. She described the
gray-green walls, with at least one black line, or slot, on the back wall.
She was with three vague shapes or shadows. It didn't feel like a pleasant
place, and she felt she had had another such experience at another time.
She was asked to go back to that experience and she found herself in
another room with a window looking out on an orange sky. There was a white
bench in the room, and the room seemed very sterile. Then she found
herself in a huge place with a domed ceiling, and she was standing beside
a 20 foot high crystal, set at an angle so that it pointed towards the
sky. It was green on the bottom half and it revolved. There were other
similar crystals in this place, about five in all, and they were hooked up
to a large piece of machinery that was similar to a generator. The crystal
was connected to the machine by a rod. The whole room hummed. There were
two other people with her; one dressed in gray, looking older with grayish
hair. The younger man, wearing black, is taller. They pointed out a
formula to her, which was on the wall. It was composed of script letters.
She was brought out of the trance and given a post hypnotic suggestion
that she will recall the formula and be able to reproduce it on a piece of
drawing paper, which she does. (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher,
HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-123, citing case
report by Dr. Alvin Lawson, John De Herrera & Dr. William Mc
Call).

1975 - At four o'clock in the morning a man and a woman driving near Taltal, Antofagasta province, Chile
had their van chased by a huge orange ball of light. It
was 100 feet from the side of the road when it first started
following them, and the driver was dazzled by the reflection of the
object's brilliance in his rear view mirror. Both witnesses felt fear
as the object pursued them for three minutes. Finally, the
UFO rose up swiftly to a pinpoint of light in the sky, and then
vanished. (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1976; FSR, July 1976, p. 33; Carles Bowen, Saga UFO Report, December 1976, p. 10).

1976 - A ten-year old
boy, Lorenzo Alvarez Vazquez, in the Bilbao suburb of Bulla, Vizcaya province, Spain reported seeing two small “extraterrestrial
beings", about 1.20 or 1.30 meters high, on this evening. They had
green eyes and noses and wore silvery clothing. They said nothing, but shone a
light on the boy as they stood next to a motorcycle. He watched them for five
minutes, and then went to get other local residents who, upon returning to the spot, saw
nothing although the boy said he could still see one of the entities. One of
the residents pointed a gun in the direction indicated by the boy, who then
announced the “spaceman” had taken refuge behind a car. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-30 (A1644); Gordon Creighton, FSR, April 1977, p. 28, citing a newspaper clipping).

1979 - At 10:35 p.m. a 60-year-old woman and her grandson
watched a glowing object approach their location in Canoga Park,
California from the west. It then hovered silently above a nearby
apartment building. They described it as a domed metallic saucer with a transparent
dome. Inside the clear dome two humanoid figures could be seen. They
appeared to have oversized heads, but were human in shape. The object
tilted to one side, levelled off, then tilted in the opposite direction
and flew off behind some trees to the west. (Sources: Walt Greenewald,
International UFO Reporter, September 1979, p. 11; Ann Druffel,
MUFON UFO Journal, December 1981, p. 15; Richard H. Hall, The
UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 24 & 492).

Canoga Park, California Close Encounter - 1979

1980 - At 4:50 in the afternoon Edith Sage was
walking down an alley on her way to some nearby shops in Medway, Kent, England
when she saw a ring of smoke and sparks coming from a spot nearby, and
an unusual craft suddenly materialized. It resembled a small
helicopter without any rotor blades, doors or engines. There was a
large transparent dome at the front of the object, and it had green and
tan camouflage markings on the side. She could see two men seated
inside, who were of normal height and wore gray jumpsuits. They
looked very much alike except one had long blond hair and the
other had dark hair, and both had olive skinned complexions. All sounds
area suddenly ceased and there was also a sweet odor in the vicinity.
The men apparently communicated with her via mental telepathy, but we
don't know the content of their communication. The craft then
suddenly disappeared in plain sight. (Sources: Jenny Randles, MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 234; Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel,
p. 74; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of
Humanoid Reports, case # A2255; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact
Database 1980, case # 354).

1990 - A disc-shaped UFO was seen over Witton Wood at 11:30 p.m., north of Walsham, Norfolk, England. The next day car batteries were found dead, and crop circles were found in a nearby field. (Source: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 127).

1991 - A couple in Flint, Michigan
were stargazing in their backyard at 1:30 a.m. when a white ball of
light came overhead. The man shot a flashlight beam at it, and it made
a "sideways loop" before continuing on. (Source: Shirley Coyne, MUFON
case files, case # 930415Cb).

2001
- At 12:40 a.m. a large, circular object was seen in the sky surrounded
by a number of small fragmentary objects, the size of 10p pieces
over Ricksmanworth, Hertford, England. The large object was white and had a glow of red and blue, and was described as very bright. At the same time in Port Talbot, Wales
two large shining white golf ball like objects were seen moving in
and out of the clouds. An hour later another strange formation of
lights flew overhead in Bushey, Hertford. At 2:30 a.m. over Glasgow, Scotland a small white light was seen moving toward and away from a larger white object. (Sources: British Ministry of Defense 2001 reports, cases # 134-137).

2001 - At the local "Hospital del Torax" in La Paz,
Bolivia nurse Wilma Huanapaco was working the night shift
in the intensive therapy wing on the first floor when she was suddenly
seized by a strange stupor that paralyzed her body. She was unable to move
her arms, legs, or even her eyelids. Using tremendous effort, she finally
was able to turn around and was confronted by the figure of a tall man,
who was enveloped in a green aura and apparently headless. The figure
suddenly vanished in plain sight. Wilma remained in the stupor for several
more minutes. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2001,
citing Abdel Padilla Vargas, La Prensa, Bolivia).

2007 - There were three more reports from England
on this date. At 3:00 p.m. two white circular objects were sighted over
Dorking, Surrey, moving at high altitude and speed. At 10:45 p.m. two
strange objects were sighted over Sheffield, West York followed by
three others. They were all bright and fiery colored, spinning and
moving very fast across the sky. Finally, at 11:15 p.m. a circular light was
seen zig-zagging across the sky over Worthing, West Sussex. (Sources: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, report (1) uploaded August 14, 2007, report (3) on August 7, 2007; British Ministry of Defense 2007 reports, case # 40).